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Napolitano gives Veterans Day address in Boston

November 12, 2012

Kristin Jamison never met her father before he lost his life in Vietnam.

Marine Cpl. Robert Lewis Curry died in the line of duty after vol­un­teering to take someone else’s patrol.

Now 46, Jamison called it hum­bling Monday to hear U.S. Home­land Secu­rity Sec­re­tary Janet Napoli­tano speak of his sac­ri­fice as North­eastern Uni­ver­sity added Curry’s name and those of two other late alumni to its Vet­erans Memorial.

‘‘It’s not just the lives of the vets. It’s the fam­i­lies and their loss,’’ said Jamison, a Mass­a­chu­setts native who lives in Spokane, Wash.

Napoli­tano was the keynote speaker at the school’s Vet­erans Day cer­e­mony, when she also placed a wreath at the base of the Vet­erans Memo­rial with uni­ver­sity pres­i­dent Joseph Aoun.

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